High-tech payphone concept with free Wi-Fi wins NYC design challenge
The people of New York have spoken. They’ve chosen a spiffy new payphone design with free Wi-Fi access and interactive advertising as the winner of a Reinvent Payphones design challenge…
We just spent a few days over in Cornwall.
Penzance
Sancreed
Gweek
Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability?
Public payphones seem headed the way of the dinosaur, as noted here on Slashdot 10 years ago, and again by the CBC earlier this year. Reasons typically cited for their demise are falling usage, (thanks to the ubiquitous cell phone), and rising maintenance costs. But during the recent disaster in NYC caused by Hurricane Sandy public payphones proved their worth…
Here are two from my trip this week and a third taken, on film, 2003.
Brugge
Brussels
Brugges again
Brasov
Romania -where we saw Sheryl Crow play and met ‘Brasov’s best breakdancer’.
Prague
Taken some years ago.
